Pupil Premium

‘We know that
a good education is the key to improving young people’s life chances, to enable
them to progress into adulthood with the skills and confidence for success. The
Pupil Premium will provide schools with the resources with which to address
inequalities in the system and raise the attainment of those pupils from
low-income families’. (DfE)

WHAT IS IT?

The pupil premium is additional funding
given to publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of
disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers.Pupil premium
funding is available to both mainstream and non-mainstream schools and it is
paid to schools according to the number of pupils who have been:•
registered
as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years (Ever 6)

Pupil Premium
Plus is available to support looked-after children. Eligibility for funding has
been extended to all children who:•
have
been looked after for 1 day or more•
were
adopted from care on or after 30 December 2005 left care under:
a
Special Guardianship Order on or after 30 December 2005
a
Residence Order on or after 14 October 1991

There is also
the Service Premium, which is designed to provide
additional (mainly pastoral) support for children with parents serving in the
regular British armed forces. Pupils attract
the service premium if they meet the following criteria:•
one
of their parents is serving in the regular armed forces•
one
of their parents served in the regular armed forces in the last 3 years•
one
of their parents died while serving in the armed forces and the pupil is in
receipt of a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) and the
War Pensions Scheme (WPS)

ACCOUNTABILITY

‘The
Pupil Premium for disadvantaged pupils will provide additional funding
specifically linked to disadvantaged pupils with the primary objective of
boosting their attainment …. We will expect schools to account to parents for
how it is used’ (page 81, White Paper 2010)The
following links outline our Pupil Premium Guarantee to young people and their
families at Brook Green.